creator Aleissa, Yazeed Muqbel advisor Chmielewski, Donald J. This work discuss the inventory creep phenomenon that occurs in production processes. Most production process use inventory to store their products for max- imizing profit. When planning and scheduling control methods were applied, these processes encountered this phenomenon at the end of the controlled horizon. We applied the economic model protective control on a production process example and demonstrate the effect the inventory creep in open-loop and closed-loop solutions. An approach is developed to negate this problem by implementing a novel terminal constraints that showed a promising results in the overall performance of the process. Submitted by Erma Thomas (thomase@iit.edu) on 2016-07-20T19:40:05Z No. of bitstreams: 1 etdadmin_upload_425878.zip: 655530 bytes, checksum: fb68dc357e869a0077c98fc2d0f43554 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-20T19:40:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 etdadmin_upload_425878.zip: 655530 bytes, checksum: fb68dc357e869a0077c98fc2d0f43554 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-05 M.S. in Chemical Engineering, May 2016 2016 2016-05 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/3893 en Inventory Creep MPC Planning Production Process Scheduling Terminal Constraints Thesis born digital application/pdf In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/ Restricted Access ChBE / Chemical and Biological Engineering Illinois Institute of Technology Affiliated department